The thing it taught me was that winning's a helluva lot more fun than losing. It also taught me that the team with the best players that worked together the best wins.

Every employee, not just the senior people, should know how a company is doing.

Take lack of candor. ... I'm not talking about boldface lying, but a tendency to withhold information. That behavior is far more common, and it frustrates teams and bosses to no end.

The team with the best players usually does win - this is why you need to invest the majority of your time and energy in developing your people.

No one is guaranteed a job in this.

That's all managing is: just coming up with the right questions and getting the right answers.

A leader's job is to look into the future and see the organization, not as it is, but as it should be